On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: > >My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on >cygwin1.dll). However, people may want to use it in a Cygwin environment and >if they do I want it to behave in a suitably "Unixy" way. The obvious >example is that when it prints out a pathname (which happens a lot) a Cygwin >user would prefer to see it in Cygwin style, including forward slashes. > >So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell >whether it was run from within a Cygwin shell. An environment variable would >be fine as long as it's standard. In fact I see a number of env vars which >would enable an educated guess but am wondering if there's a defined >standard and safe way.
A PATH containing colons which weren't preceded by just a single alphabetic character would be a clue but it wouldn't be foolproof. A HOME environment variable with no colons and forward slashes would be another clue. I don't think there is a foolproof test, though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/